If your wallet is a bit heavy with gift cards, loyalty cards, and other cards that have value but don't see daily use, repurpose a business card organizer to store them and keep them from getting misplaced.

It isn't every day you to go to PetSmart or Barnes and Noble, so carrying around the cards you need for that store unnecessarily fattens your wallet. Home and organization magazine Real Simple shares a tip for keeping them organized, getting them out of your wallet, and putting an old desk fixture to use: Organize them all in a business card organizer—that thing we all used before PDAs and smartphones dominated the contact-management landscape—to keep them close at hand and ready for use. Alternately if you're afraid you'll forget to bring them with you, you could get a business card wallet and keep them in your glove box.

For more ways to cut down on the cards you carry, check out how to store your loyalty cards on your phone with previously reviewed Key Ring for Android, CardStar for iPhone, or take the analog route with previously mentionedKeyRingThing. Have a tip or trick for dealing with too much plastic in your wallet? Let's hear about your gift and loyalty card wrangling tips in the comments.